QAD | Redzone, the company delivering the leading manufacturing platform, powered by Agentic AI that executes work and decisions across the business, from the shop floor to the top floor, announced an expanded strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud services provider, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions.

Together, the companies will help manufacturers modernise operations faster, scale execution with confidence, and unlock the full value of agentic AI without the excessive cost, disruption, time and staffing associated with traditional ERP.

The three companies have united to deliver a highly secure, agile architecture and services offering tailored for mid-market manufacturers. The collaboration enables companies to move away from high-risk, legacy enterprise systems and leverage modern ERP and AI to build a true System of Action.

“Manufacturers don’t need another massive ERP overhaul—they need results now,” said Amit Sharma, QAD President - Manufacturing ERP. “This strategic collaboration allows them to flexibly deploy intelligent capabilities immediately and fund their transformation with real savings.”

The Three Pillars of the Strategic Collaboration

The alliance aligns cloud infrastructure, transformation services, and industry-specific software into a single, scalable operating model:

QAD | Redzone (The System of Action): Delivers deep manufacturing DNA and ChampionAI (Agentic AI) to automate mundane tasks and proactively attack margin leaks. QAD ChampionAI acts as a "smart layer" that can be deployed alongside existing ERP environments.

AWS (The Trusted Foundation): Provides secure, scalable cloud infrastructure purpose-built for manufacturing workloads, powered by Amazon Bedrock — a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and scale generative AI applications and agents — enabling manufacturers to deploy intelligent automation and real-time operational insights with the reliability, security, and global reach that production environments demand.

TCS (The Transformation Guide): Acts as the strategic architect, managing the move away from "rip-and-replace" ERP deployments toward a phased project and two-tiered option that ensures business continuity.

At the core of the collaboration is a flexible architecture and set of services that allow manufacturers to maintain existing enterprise systems for financial and corporate governance while deploying QAD’s manufacturing-focused capabilities directly at the plant level.

Manufacturers can adopt a two-tier strategy to achieve operational agility at the plant level by utilising purpose-built tools specifically designed for the complexities of the shop floor. This approach ensures that local facilities have the specialised functionality they need to excel, while still maintaining seamless integration with corporate finance systems for unified global reporting. Ultimately, this model facilitates a significantly faster deployment, allowing organisations to modernise their production environments without the risk of major business disruptions.